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Guolin Gu, CASAS’ member, has published an article in The Journal of Peasant Studies. Abstract: Why do peasants refrain from resisting dispossession, even when faced with the loss of subsistence, minimal compensation, and limited state enforcement? This paper examines an ethnographic case of decade-long intra-village conflicts following partial land expropriation for railway construction in southwest…
Qinhong Xu is a researcher with the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, Netherlands. She earned her PhD from the Water Resources Management Group at the same university, focusing on rural water governance in China. Her research includes political ecology, governmentality, and science and technology studies in water and environmental governance. Currently, she investigates the…
Qinhong Xu, CASAS’ member, has just published an article in the Journal of Peasant Studies with Rutgerd Boelens & Gert Jan Veldwisch Abstract: The article investigates the evolution of rural water governance in the People’s Republic of China through a historical review of its water governance transformations, including the ideology, institutions, and discourses. It is…
CASAS’ member, Phuong Hao Phan, has published a brief report with Yi’En Cheng in Asian Population Studies. Abstract: Vietnam and China have a shared history of collaboration and conflict, with economic interdependence becoming an important pillar in recent decades. China’s larger worldwide policy of economic and cultural expansion (or the ‘go-out strategy’) is crucial in…
Agrarian Conversations webinar series: episode 2Global food regimes and ChinaWednesday, 28 April 2021, 15:00-16:30 Amsterdam (CET) The second episode in Agrarian Conversations webinar series will be on “Global food regimes and China”. What relationship does China have to current food regime transitioning, with the changing geographies of production, circulation and consumption of global food commodities, and the…